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America Shall Be Saved.

She has been saved again and again, by the hand of God working through and upon people.
This is our history. Each is a Covenant with God Almighty. He remembers, even when we do not. Or when our history has been blotted out.

Here is our history.

6 Revivals in American History

#1      1730-43 Revival    The Great Awakening

• Cotton Mather
• George Whitfield

#2      1805-27 Revival    The 2nd Great Awakening

Cain Ridge Revival in KY with Two Methodist Ministers and in NY with Charles Finney

• Many "fell out" overcome with Holy Spirit. Illustrations depicted it in newspapers.
• One publication wrote, "Revivals, we rejoice to say, are becoming too numerous in our country to admit of being generally recorded in our Record."
• Charles Finney, lawyer-turned-preacher, exemplified addressing God in informal,natural language. He made God approachable.
• Social Reform spread everywhere, along with continuing revival.
• Revival spread into African-American culture as they also felt empowered by the Declaration of Independence.
• Many independent Baptist churches formed and grew. The message of "Jubilee" or Freedom, resounded with Black churches.
• This Awakening impacted society, changed how Americans worshiped and preached, inspired social reform and converted thousands to Christianity.

Haystack Prayer Meeting  –  August 1806

• Samuel Mills and 4 other Williams College students caught in a Sat afternoon rain, stopped to pray at a haystack in a field; It began to rain and they took shelter in the lee of a haystack
  and continued praying.
• "The Haystack Prayer Meeting" launched the modern mission movement, as they debated the theology of missionary service. They committed themselves to missionary service.
• "The Brethren" was formed, with the mission to go to non-Christian countries. They went to India. 
• Samuel Mills became the Haystack person of greatest influence as he founded the American Bible Society and the United Foreign Missinary Society,
• Byram Green, oversaw the monument erected in Mission Park in Williamstown, MA, to honor the 5 men involved in the Haystack prayer meeting. One Hundred years later, a commemoration was held at Williams College in MA. In 2006, another celebreation of Haystack was held and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was formed, to help students go abroad and spread the Gospel of Christ.
• Motto – "We can do it if we will!”

#3      1857-58 Revival    The Prayer Revival or Businessman's Revival

NYC noon prayer meeting started by a local pastor burdened to pray for NYC

• Dred Scot had been decided that African-Americans and descendents could not be U.S. Citizens. The Civil War began.
• Businessman Jeremiah Lanphier was converted at Finney's Broadway Tabernacle in NY. He hosted a Wed. pm prayer meeting for businessmen. At 12 noon, no one came. Same. 12:25.
  At 12:30, the 1st businessman came. Then 5 more. The next Wed., 20 came. Then the stock market crashed. Desperation.. Then 3,000 showed up. One attendee spread it to Philadelphia. He brought in 2,500. It grew.
• Horace Greeley sent a reporter on horseback across NYC at noon looking for anyone who was not praying; could find none!
• The revival moved from NYC to campuses across America
• YMCA expanded into the collegiate ministry in 1858 to 180 campuses in 1884

• YMCA staffed with student leadership dedicated to evangelism
• Carleton College (MN) – 1878 every student in all 4 classes professed Christ!

#4      1905-06 Azuza Street Revival   

• “Never in the history of universities have there been so many genuine spiritual awakenings among students.”
• Seeds for this revival were planted at the July 1886 Mt. Hermon student conference for 250 students from 89 campuses with D.L. Moody
• ‘The Princeton Covenant’  –  100 signed at the conference to go to mission field unless God stopped them
• Spawned the worldwide Pentacostal Movement.
• Evangelist William J. Seymour came from LA to Mississippi to preach the Apostolic faith, which combined baptism of Holy Spirit with speaking in Tongues (glossalialia) as recorded in Acts 2.
• This was the greatest era of missions sending in the history of the USA – The Student Volunteer Movement
• Motto  –  “The evangelization of the world in this generation”
• The paper, "Apostolic Faith" was begun, distributed, for free. It went from 5,000 distributions, to 40,000 distributions.

#5      1949-50 Billy Graham Revival

• 2 students from Los Angeles drove 2,300 miles to Minneapolis to pray with Dr. J. Edwin Orr and Dr. Billy Graham for campus revival
• Orr preached at Bethel College chapel, “there was much prayer in the dormitories, followed by intense conviction of sin among the students in chapel and in classroom…Conviction was relieved only by outright confession, restitution, restoration or conversion to God”
• Oct. 1955 NY Times, “More than 1,200 of the nation’s 1,900 colleges and universities now have a ‘religious emphasis week of some sort.”

#6      1970’s Jesus Movement

• Asbury College in Kentucky
• Revival quickly moved to many state and private campuses
• U.C.- Berkeley (1968)     
• Chuck Smith (founder of Calvary Chapel) was witnessing to the hippies and radical students and began to see many converted! 
• As many as 250,000 students came to Christ during the next 8-10 years

#7      Today?

• February 8, 2023 chapel service at Asbury College
• Seems to be spreading to other campuses – both to Christian colleges and state colleges
• Gen Z (iGen) students leading this movement of the Spirit of God

• Pray for a movement of repentance from sin!
• Pray that believers will be bold in proclaiming Christ!
• Pray for a reaping of many souls into the Kingdom of God!